Marie Letizia

Marie Letizia (1963-) was a resident of South Philadelphia during the 1970s.

Biography
Marie Letizia was born in South Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1963 to a working-class Italian-American family, and she grew up on 1124 Jackson Street with one older brother. Her brother befriended amateur boxer Rocky Balboa, who looked out for Letizia: on the night of 25 November 1975, Balboa escorted her back home from hanging out with a pack of young "yo-yos" in front of the Atomic Hoagie Shop and warned her that she would gain a reputation as a "whore" if she continued to hang out with the wrong sorts of people and use curse words. She insulted Balboa as a "creep-o" before entering her house, but, years later in 2005, after Letizia had a son and divorced his Jamaican father, Balboa gave Marie and her son jobs at his restaurant, "Adrian's", where Marie worked as a waitress.